A while ago, I was working on creating this presentation, which was designed to be an interactive tour around 15 Blenheim Terrace (which is the home of Skills@Library at the University of Leeds), as well as an introduction to what support we can offer to students.
The idea was to create the illusion of being in the building, and we wanted the user to be able to navigate around from within the slides, without having to rely on using the Articulate controls, or the sidebar menu (though we ended up including the sidebar aswell).
As we were using numerous Engage interactions within the slides, we had to come up with a way of linking from the Engage slides back to other slides. We also wanted to maintain the illusion of being “in” the building, so that when the user still appeared to be in the room when they accessed the Engage interactions. This Screenr will show you what we came up with:
If you’re embedding multiple Engage interactions into a presentation in this way, you should rename your engage.swf files to something meaningful, otherwise once you’ve published that Articulate presentation you won’t be able to keep track of which is which.
Also, if you then republish your Articulate presentation, the engage_content folder will have to be copied over again.
** Updated**
See a PDF version of these instructions here, by request of @TriciaRansom
Love your site and your ideas here! You’ve found some great ways to use Articulate Studio. I tried your method here, which works well. But I don’t see how it can work with multiple Engage interactions, since the program seems to need them to all be named fm_engage.swf!
Hi Connie, thanks for the comment!
To use this for multiple interactions, you can name the engage.swf files, as long as you rename the engage_content folder accordingly. So for example if you insert a file called engage1.swf, you’d name your engage content folder fm_engage1_content.